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The lost story of the Shetland Female Emigration Fund
Read more: The lost story of the Shetland Female Emigration FundVéronique Molinari explores how four people united forces to help young Shetlanders emigrate to Australia
Hannah Arendt’s Untold Planetary Politics
In our current moment of climate crisis, Lucy Benjamin delves into the thinking of Hannah Arendt to unearth the environmentalism at its core
Charities and Politics in Bashar al-Asad’s Syria: Q&A with Laura Ruiz de Elvira
Laura Ruiz de Elvira explores the role of charities in Bashar al-Asad’s Syria and, by extension, the eventual downfall of the regime.
The Middle East is drowning in oppressive utopias
Simon Wolfgang Fuchs and Thomas Pierret explore the gap between oppressive and emancipatory utopias in the Middle East and North Africa
Food insecurity in Scotland
David Watts discusses the challenges of reducing food insecurity in Scotland, and the Scottish Government's 'Cash-First' initiative.
Catastrophic Technology: Perspectives on the end of the world
Caroline Ashcroft explores the connections between current and mid-twentieth-century thought on the catastrophic potential of technology
The US and UK as embedded democracies
Benjamin M. Studebaker evaluates the realistic chances of anti-democratic revolution in the United States and the United Kingdom
Arguments against the Scottish visa are overblown
The author of The Politics of Immigration in Scotland discusses the benefits of a regional immigration policy for Scotland.
Intergenerational justice: can liberal democracies govern for the future?
Is it possible to attain democratic legitimacy regarding long-term policies when the majority of people still vote for politicians that privilege short-term preferences?
A country built with diasporas and immigrants
How have diasporas and migrants contributed to the rise of the US as a great political, economic, scientific, and cultural power?